Cory Cox, born February 10, 1978, North Vancouver Canada has played an influential role in developing modern day music programs in China. Cory Cox, radio DJ and once MTV VJ has been recognized as the founder of the almost cult following alternative rock radio program Xfm that broadcasted nationally across China. Broadcasting from CRI 91.5 in Beijing Xfm reached homes as far East as Tibet and as far south as Hong Kong.
Born in Vancouver, Canada, Cory Cox, long term DJ and program developer. Cox joined the CRI team of on-air personalities in 1999, and right away began to build a strong rapport with his audience. Most widely known for his bad hair, and dry sense of humor, Cory Cox has worked on such programs as Hit FM, The A-Zone, and Plus Radio Concepts and Xfm. Local and foreign acts have graced his studio, names such as Alanis Morissette, Fatboy Slim, Coco Lee, The Orb, Suede, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey and in 2004 he excourted the Back Street Boys to the Great Wall of China with MTV on their first ever tour of the country.
Born in Vancouver, Canada, Cory Cox, long term DJ and program developer. Cox joined the CRI team of on-air personalities in 1999, and right away began to build a strong rapport with his audience. Most widely known for his bad hair, and dry sense of humor, Cory Cox has worked on such programs as Hit FM, The A-Zone, and Plus Radio Concepts and Xfm. Local and foreign acts have graced his studio, names such as Alanis Morissette, Fatboy Slim, Coco Lee, The Orb, Suede, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey and in 2004 he excourted the Back Street Boys to the Great Wall of China with MTV on their first ever tour of the country.
Cinnamon Challenge
The "Cinnamon Challenge" is a supposedly impossible challenge in which one must take a full tablespoon of cinnamon and swallow it whole without spitting any of the cinnamon out. However, because of cinnamon's powdery texture, it tends to stick to the saliva in the contestant's mouth and throat, causing said contestant to gag. The extremely strong taste of cinnamon in such a large quantity generally causes the contestant to become sick. Contestants also have a hard time breathing for about two minutes after completing the challenge.
The Cinnamon Challenge gained notoriety on the internet no later than April, 2005. As of November, 2007, videos of people partaking in the cinnamon challenge are still popular on internet video sites, such as Ebaumsworld, and they continue to receive views exceeding 300,000.
As a note of reference, it has been stated that a teaspoon dose of cinnamon is poisons to the human body. There has not been any confirmation of this however, and is to be considered an urban legend.
The "Cinnamon Challenge" is a supposedly impossible challenge in which one must take a full tablespoon of cinnamon and swallow it whole without spitting any of the cinnamon out. However, because of cinnamon's powdery texture, it tends to stick to the saliva in the contestant's mouth and throat, causing said contestant to gag. The extremely strong taste of cinnamon in such a large quantity generally causes the contestant to become sick. Contestants also have a hard time breathing for about two minutes after completing the challenge.
The Cinnamon Challenge gained notoriety on the internet no later than April, 2005. As of November, 2007, videos of people partaking in the cinnamon challenge are still popular on internet video sites, such as Ebaumsworld, and they continue to receive views exceeding 300,000.
As a note of reference, it has been stated that a teaspoon dose of cinnamon is poisons to the human body. There has not been any confirmation of this however, and is to be considered an urban legend.
Spime is a neologism for a currently-theoretical object that can be tracked through space and time throughout the lifetime of the object. The name “spime” for this concept was coined by science fiction author Bruce Sterling. Sterling sees spimes as coming through the convergence of six emerging technologies, related to both the manufacturing process for consumer goods, and through identification and location technologies. [http://server1.sxsw.com/2006/coverage/SXSW06.INT.20060314.BruceSterling.mp3 *]
These six facets of spimes are:
#Small, inexpensive means of remotely and uniquely identifying objects over short ranges; in other words, radio-frequency identification.
#A mechanism to precisely locate something on Earth, such as a global-positioning system.
#A way to mine large amounts of data for things that match some given criteria, like internet search engines.
#Tools to virtually construct nearly any kind of object; computer-aided design.
#Ways to rapidly prototype virtual objects into real ones. Sophisticated, automated fabrication of a specification for an object, through “three-dimensional printers.”
#“Cradle-to-cradle” life-spans for objects. Cheap, effective recycling.
With all six of these, one could track the entire existence of an object, from before it was made (its virtual representation), through its manufacture, its ownership history, its physical location, until its eventual obsolescence and breaking-down back into raw material to be used for new instantiations of objects. If recorded, the lifetime of the object can be archived, and searched for.
Spimes are not defined merely by these six technologies; it is, rather, that if these technologies converge within the manufacturing process (CAD and automated manufacturing are already in wide use in the manufacture of many things today; RFIDs are becoming more and more prevalent in consumer goods) then spimes could indeed arise.
What is an “Object?”
The use of the term “object” may seem abstruse and overly generic. As an example by what is meant by “object” in the context of spimes, consider a pair of tennis shoes. A tennis shoe can be thought of as an object in the manufacturing cycle — it first exists as a digital specification for a shoe, then raw materials are gathered and formed into the shoe, an RFID may be embedded into the fabric, and then it is sold. Location and searching for this shoe may involve asking a computer search engine “where are my shoes?” To which the reply may be “your shoes are under your bed,” which would combine identification, location, and data mining (linking the shoes to your ownership of them). Once the soles wear out, the shoes may be sent back to the manufacturer, who will break them down back into raw material which could be used to fabricate a new pair of shoes for you.
"Spime" was probably first used in a large public forum by Sterling at SIGGRAPH Los Angeles, August 2004. The idea was further expanded upon in Shaping Things.
These six facets of spimes are:
#Small, inexpensive means of remotely and uniquely identifying objects over short ranges; in other words, radio-frequency identification.
#A mechanism to precisely locate something on Earth, such as a global-positioning system.
#A way to mine large amounts of data for things that match some given criteria, like internet search engines.
#Tools to virtually construct nearly any kind of object; computer-aided design.
#Ways to rapidly prototype virtual objects into real ones. Sophisticated, automated fabrication of a specification for an object, through “three-dimensional printers.”
#“Cradle-to-cradle” life-spans for objects. Cheap, effective recycling.
With all six of these, one could track the entire existence of an object, from before it was made (its virtual representation), through its manufacture, its ownership history, its physical location, until its eventual obsolescence and breaking-down back into raw material to be used for new instantiations of objects. If recorded, the lifetime of the object can be archived, and searched for.
Spimes are not defined merely by these six technologies; it is, rather, that if these technologies converge within the manufacturing process (CAD and automated manufacturing are already in wide use in the manufacture of many things today; RFIDs are becoming more and more prevalent in consumer goods) then spimes could indeed arise.
What is an “Object?”
The use of the term “object” may seem abstruse and overly generic. As an example by what is meant by “object” in the context of spimes, consider a pair of tennis shoes. A tennis shoe can be thought of as an object in the manufacturing cycle — it first exists as a digital specification for a shoe, then raw materials are gathered and formed into the shoe, an RFID may be embedded into the fabric, and then it is sold. Location and searching for this shoe may involve asking a computer search engine “where are my shoes?” To which the reply may be “your shoes are under your bed,” which would combine identification, location, and data mining (linking the shoes to your ownership of them). Once the soles wear out, the shoes may be sent back to the manufacturer, who will break them down back into raw material which could be used to fabricate a new pair of shoes for you.
"Spime" was probably first used in a large public forum by Sterling at SIGGRAPH Los Angeles, August 2004. The idea was further expanded upon in Shaping Things.
Martin Petrov (born February 22, 1991) better known by his stage name DJ RaptoriaL, is an Bulgarian DJ. He is the co-founder, along with his friend, DJ Bleed, of RaptoriaL Records, an imprint distributed by Buckwild. He has sold more than one million records in the BG alone. He is also the DJ with the most Top 40 BG-Street 100 Hits of all time.